GOP/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “House Republican leaders worked to build support among GOP lawmakers for a broad immigration bill tentatively set for a vote on Wednesday [6-27-18], aiming to minimize defections after President Donald Trump vacillated on whether he backed the measure. After meeting behind closed doors with rank-and-file Republicans, GOP leaders planned to spend the day counting how many votes would be gained from proposed revisions that would make it harder to work in the U.S. without legal documentation and to establish a new agricultural guest-worker program. If the bill fails, as expected, the House could move as early as Thursday [6-28-18] to a targeted bill dealing with the uproar over a Trump administration policy that led to the forced separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents…Republicans say that Mr. Trump has already undercut the vote by shifting his position on the measure, a compromise hammered out between centrist and conservative Republicans. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) told a closed-door meeting Monday [6-25-18] that some Republicans have said they couldn’t vote for the broad immigration measure without more full-throated support from the president, according to a person familiar with the matter.”
–Siobhan Hughes, “GOP Leaders Aim to Build Support for Immigration Bill,” The Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2018 12:16 pm